FIVE YEARS! Let’s Celebrate

It’s been FIVE YEARS since the first issue of MAKE hit the streets. Can you believe it?

Celebrate with us at Reggie’s on July 30! We’re hosting the Printers’ Ball after party!

Meanwhile, we’ve put together some pretty sweet party bags, available for a limited time.

Here’s the deal:

CLICK HERE to subscribe to MAKE: A Literary Magazine or donate to MAKE Literary Productions, a 501(c)(3) literary arts nonprofit, before July 4 and be entered in a raffle to win one of ten MAKE grab bags containing five special things: books authored by MAKE contributors, gift certificates for restaurants and customized poems, music from MAKE party participants, and much more!

Plus, the June subscription special has been extended through the Fourth of July! Subscribe TODAY and receive a five-dollar discount on your subscription! A cyber high five.

Your support goes directly to printing costs.

Join us for the Bronx Book Fair this Sunday!

MAKE Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman will man a table!

Did you know there are only two bookstores in the Bronx? The Book Fair is organized as an action against how few bookstores there are in the neighborhood. Adults, families, and kids are all welcome, and attendance is free.

Rain or shine, we’ll be there. Please come out and say “Hi,” and please spread the word.

Thanks! – Sergio Bessa, Lynn Pono, Bridget Bartolini, Andres Santiago, and Mairead Case

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FEATURING LOCALS: Frank Adamo’s Freedomland (Arcadia Publishing), Belladonna, BOMB, Bronx Heroes Comics, Lisa Kahane’s Do Not Give Way to Evil: Photographs of the South Bronx (1979-1987) (powerHouse Books), Mosaic, MAKE, New York Writers Coalition, Porgo Souley, Reanimation Library, Carlos Quispe’s Killer Heights (Printed Matter), Sisters Uptown Bookstore, and Ugly Duckling Presse.

INCLUDING A CHICAGO TABLE w/ WORK FROM: the2NDHAND, Action Books, Another Chicago Magazine, featherproof, Green Lantern Press, Half Letter Press, Susie Kirkwood & Jill Summers, Monsters and Dust, Pocket Guide to Hell Tours, The Printers’ Ball, Public Media Institute (Lumpen, Proximity), and Stop Smiling.

Thursday, June 24 – Greg Purcell & Joel Craig

7pm Myopic Books, 1564 North Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago

Joel CRAIG’s chapbook Shine Tomorrow is available from Lost Horse Press. His poems have appeared in Lungfull!, GutCult, A Public Space, Zoland Poetry, Rabbit Light Movies, Fence, and others. He is the poetry editor at MAKE: A Literary Magazine, and co-founder and curator of the Danny’s Reading Series—where he lives—in Chicago.

Greg PURCELL’s poetry has appeared most recently in The Agriculture Reader, Lungfull! Magazine, Open City and in the anthology A Best of Fence: The First 9 Years. He organizes the St. Mark’s Bookshop Reading Series and writes about poetry and science fiction on his blog, The Supercollider. With Joel Craig, he co-founded The Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago.

CLMP Lit Mag Marathon Weekend!

New York, New York, June 19 & 20

11th Annual
LIT MAG MARATHON WEEKEND
June 19th and 20th
All events are free and open to the public

New York, NY—The magazines may be little, but the weekend is big,
big, BIG! Itʼs time once again for CLMPʼs annual Lit Mag Marathon Weekend, a massive showcase of Americaʼs diverse literary magazines and journals.

EDITORS UNLEASHED!
The Magathon
New York Public Libraryʼs DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, 5th Ave. at
42nd St.
Saturday, June 19th from 4–6:30 PM

The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory “marathon”
reading. Dozens of editors representing journals of different sizes and styles
will present favorite selections from their latest issues.

MAKE Fiction Editor Kamilah Foreman will read!

BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS!
The GIANT Lit Mag Fair at Housing Works
Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby Street in Soho
Sunday, June 20th from 12–5PM

Lit fiends can take home armfuls of lit mags discounted more than 50%
at only $2 a copy! Choose from hundreds of magazines from all over the country
and hobnob with many of the editors whoʼll be there in person to meet and
greet.

Proceeds go to Housing Works, a nonprofit organization serving
homeless people living with AIDS, and to The Council of
Literary Magazines and Presses, a nonprofit organization serving
independent literary publishers.

Danny’s Reading Series

Release party reading for Suzanne Buffam and John Beer
Wednesday, June 9th, 7:30PM

Suzanne Buffam’s first book, Past Imperfect, was published in 2005 by House of Anansi Press. The Irrationalist, her second book, was published in the U.S. by Canarium Books and in Canada by House of Anansi Press in April 2010. She’s the recipient of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry, and her poems have appeared in Boston Review, A Public Space, jubilat, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in Chicago.

John Beer’s first book, The Waste Land and Other Poems, was published by Canarium Books in April 2010. His work has appeared in MAKE (read Oceanic from issue 6 here)Verse, The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, Crowd, and elsewhere.

Facebook event page

New and improved No Slander event page

Newbie Associate Visual Arts Editor Caleb Lyons talks shop at the MCA on Tuesday, June 8 at 6pm. Caleb J. Lyons discusses his exhibition of paintings and ceramics during this informal gallery talk. This program is part of the MCA’s monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Workexhibition series.

Lyons’s show of new work will be up at the Museum of Contemporary Art through June 27

It’s been five years since the first issue of MAKE! Remember the night? Friday, June 24. Aaron Michael Morales read from El Camino; Bill Hillman read boxing poems; Christine Hoffman read from her short story Dwelling Marvin Tate and LeRoy Bach performed poems and songs as Group Sex. Throughout the night, Chris Salveter serenaded us and, for a second, Vince Vaughn. There was air-conditing, and it was such a relief.

To celebrate our fifth anniversary, we’re taking five bucks off subscriptions. Visit our online store to support MAKE with you subscription.

ISSUE ONE COVERS
photo by Rachel Jackson	print by Johnathan Crawford	sculpture by Alfonso Nieves	painting by Stacie Johnson